Minecraft 1.8 Pre-Release

Author: Mojang Team ❘ August 24, 2014 ❘ 7,190 views

Minecraft 1.8 official will be published in the launcher on Tuesday, September 2. These changes consist of both new features, and large game structure changes such as replacing the hard-coded “block renderer” with a system that is able to read block shapes from data files, or performance enhancements such as multi-threading the client-side chunk rendering.